In the Mirror of Persian Kings : The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India

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Book:A book with an explicit publisher.
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Title
In the Mirror of Persian Kings : The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Author(s)
Auer Blain
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781108935876
9781108832311
9781108941044
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/05/2021
Language
english
Abstract
For a period of nearly eight hundred years, Perso-Islamic kingship was the source for the dominant social and cultural paradigms organising Indian political life. In the medieval world of South Asia, Persian kingship took the form of a hybridized and adaptive political expression. The Persian king embodied the values of justice, military heroics, and honor, ideals valorized historically and transculturally, yet the influence of the pre-Islamic Persian past and Persian forms of kingship has not yet been fully recognised. In this book, Blain Auer demonstrates how Persian kingship was a transcultural phenomenon and how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim rulers who made claims to a broad symbolic and ideological inheritance from the Persian kings of legend.
Keywords
Islam, India
Open Access
Yes
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31/05/2021 10:42
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01/06/2021 5:36
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